: Gorgeous? You're telling me those textures are GORGEOUS?!?! We are
: talking about the same ones, right? The ones that burn my retinas into
: pools of red mush?

The Marathon 2 textures are easily my favorite of the three games. They have a stylistic edge over not just the other two games, but over most of the other shooters of that era time. Can you look at a Quake texture and identify the game it came from? "Oh, look at that. Some dirt."